Face ID will become more Secure and Harder to Copy

Face ID from iPhone X it will have major improvements in the future, as Apple wants to make the facial recognition system even more secure than it is now, and it will also be harder to copy. More precisely, the Apple company wants to implement for Face ID a technology that will scan the veins on the faces of users to do facial recognition, this change making the system much safer than now.

Face ID will be able to detect the patterns of veins on the users' faces for identification, the system being so complex that it would provide such high accuracy that it could even distinguish twins. At the moment, twins can trick Face ID to unlock phones, but some have also demonstrated that it is not necessarily necessary for brothers to be twins for the Face ID system to be tricked for unlocking.

Face ID will become more Secure and Harder to Copy

Face ID would still use infrared light to detect the veins under the users' skin, the light reflected back being recorded by the TrueDepth camera of Apple's iPhones. Based on the recorded images, a 3D representation of the user's face is created along with the vein patterns, and so Face ID will be able to recognize the person who owns the respective phone, thus preventing deception with pictures or masks.

"Imaging apparatus includes an image capture device, which includes an optical transmitter, which is configured to emit one or more pulses of infrared radiation towards an area containing a body surface of a living subject, and an optical receiver, which is configured to receive the pulses reflected from the body surface and to generate an output indicative of a modulation of the pulses by tissue below the body surface."

Apple says that systems of this kind are already used for authentication based on the palms of the hands, and they are extremely accurate, so they can also be used to identify users' faces. How long Apple might need to bring this system for Face ID is hard to say, but those from Cupertino will definitely try to improve facial recognition, which is not perfect anyway and has enough problems.